An LGBTQ media advocacy organization lambasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday that he was ordering a ban on the service of transgender people in the U.S. military.
Trump’s decision reversed an Obama-era policy to allow service from openly transgender soldiers, and followed what was a six-month delay of that policy announced by Defense Secretary James Mattis on June 30.
“President Trump today issued a direct attack on transgender Americans, and his administration will stop at nothing to implement its anti-LGBTQ ideology within our government – even if it means denying some of our bravest Americans the right to serve and protect our nation,” the group’s president and CEO, Kate Ellis, said in a statement. “Today further exposed President Trump’s overall goal to erase LGBTQ Americans from this nation. Trump has never been a friend to LGBTQ Americans, and this action couldn’t make that any more clear.”
The organization’s statement continued: “Today’s anti-LGBTQ announcement summarizes the full-scale attack on LGBTQ Americans by the Trump Administration. Since President Trump’s inauguration, the administration has stopped at nothing to erase LGBTQ acceptance from the federal government.”
I’ve got some news for Trump, many of his supporters have trans children and many just came out to family members after the Obama protections.
I’ve been surprised by the number of virulent rightwing types known to us who have, in the last year or so, confessed to or have even introduced us to their trans children.
Additionally, even here in the Kentucky section of The Enchanted Forest, trans people have become more visible in area businesses.
Mooch might have to find another tire with a bigger hole for Trump to aim his next football.
What better proof of Trump’s allegiance to Putin?
This is the front in the struggle for human rights in the US, but it’s hard for me not to think this Twitter announcement is just more distraction. That the military might be struggling with the high cost of gender change procedures is, like most shit that falls from his mouth, completely without substance.
Trump does like his foreign despots. If they can do it, he can do it. Late night round ups and executions of ‘them’ is coming to you sooner that you think.
Donnie has been seen wearing a wristband sayin: WWPD?
What Would Putin Do?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for m